Example sentences of "[vb infin] at an [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About 1,700 people were watching the weekend display at an 11th-century castle at Pevensey , Sussex . |
| 2 | The three candidates Mr Fowler , Mrs Fletcher and Frank Cook , who defends the seat for Labour will speak at an open forum arranged by the Christian Election Forum in Norton parish church , at 8pm on Sunday . |
| 3 | This can be avoided in the second model : Here pupils would begin at an agreed level and be guided through tasks with demands at each step increasing so that every child can positively achieve , i.e. reach their place on the ladder while the most able can continue to show their abilities beyond a fixed range . |
| 4 | If true , it should follow that antral cancer would be more common and would occur at an early age in those parts of the world where the majority of the population already have serum antibodies to the organism before adult life . |
| 5 | More recent histopathological and microvascular studies suggest that vascular involvement may occur at an earlier stage and play a more important role in the disease process than had previously been supposed . |
| 6 | Er the County Council can not look at an individual building and say , this is a particular piece of land which is going to be developed and this is going to have this particular impact on the environment . |
| 7 | So let us look at an English case which exemplifies some of the practical problems confronting the theorists of sustainable development : Twyford Down ( near Winchester ) and the route of the M3 motorway in March 1990 . |
| 8 | Before I accept the Secretary of State 's olive branch and damn my political career in front of my colleagues on the Opposition Front Bench , will he clarify at an early stage in the Standing Committee the position about nurses in Wales , England , Scotland and Northern Ireland who take courses and then return to their own districts ? |
| 9 | Processes such as indexing , sorting , extractive lists , spelling checks , etc. , should perform at an acceptable speed to a user . |
| 10 | The researcher engaged in the social study of baptism may well decide at an early stage of the study that in modern British society baptism is more of a social than a religious ceremony . |
| 11 | Whether the ‘ pollution ’ comes to light as a result of proactive or reactive enforcement , however , the field man must decide at an early stage whether what he is observing constitutes a ‘ pollution ’ or not . |
| 12 | Where possible , cut out the ends of the rotted area so that the new piece will fit at an open angle , making it much easier to fit than right-angled joints . |
| 13 | Many severely handicapped children do die at an early age through natural causes , but at least the parents can feel that they did everything they could for the child when it was alive . |
| 14 | I was quite interested in that actually because you you did imply at an earlier stage that er although seniority was the the important principle in ge in gaining promotion , er there was no harm done if in your favour you know . |
| 15 | A man on horseback was circling the water , the reins slack in his hands to let his mount go at an idle walk . |
| 16 | Furthermore , it is often possible to replicate the artefacts in order to test the hypotheses about a particular object , although in some cases several different technological methods might arrive at an identical end-product . |
| 17 | The landlord can let at an agreed market rent . |
| 18 | This will be a pioneer study of the Italian opera singing profession as a whole , from the beginnings of opera in the early seventeenth century to the latest point in the twentieth century at which historical inquiry can operate at an unrelaxed standard . |
| 19 | This war will start at an appointed time , like a ball game . |
| 20 | At this stage either party can invoke a procedure introduced in 1980 , which can place pressure on the other side to withdraw or settle at an early stage . |
| 21 | This makes it easier for more particles to tunnel out , and so the emission will continue at an ever-increasing rate until eventually the black hole radiates itself out of existence . |
| 22 | The highly reactive pentagon-road fragments , if they form at all , would form at an early stage of clustering when many small radical species remain . |
| 23 | We spent the first day climbing on Anglesey 's big sea cliffs to prove that we could climb at an extreme level . |
| 24 | Since the universe would already be expanding just as in the hot big bang model , the repulsive effective of this cosmological constant would therefore have made the universe expand at an ever-increasing rate . |
| 25 | The first , golden rule is that children do not learn at an even pace . |
| 26 | Riding to help out usually gives you rides on a better horse than you would probably find at an average riding school and without the expense ! |
| 27 | The middle-horns were the most esteemed of draught cattle because of their activity and hardiness ; they would also fatten at an early age if not working but the milk yield of the cows was poor in comparison with the short-horned cattle of Durham , Yorkshire and Lincolnshire . |